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Organ Concerto No. 5, in F major
EDUARD MÜLLER
SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSlS
Conducted by AUGUST WENZINGER gramophone record
Quartet in H flat major, Op. 130 played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
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MOZART
Piano Concerto No. 18. In B flat major (K.456)
GEZA ANPA (piano) who also directs the SALZBURG MOZARTEUM ORCHESTRA
String Quartet No.
JUILLlARD QUARTET
Robert Mann (violin) Isidore Cohen (violin) Raphael Hillyer (viola) Claus Adam (cello)
Piano Sonata in D major (D 850)
CLIFFORD CURZON
Cantata No. 54: Widerstehe doch der Siinde
HELEN WATTS (contralto)
PHILOMlSICA ORCHESTRA Directed by THURSTON DART (harpsichord) gramophone records
with Fritz Kreisler
gramophone records
Introduced by Steve Race.
Directed by Kenneth Pragnell
Timings may be altered by events
12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre
Cricket 12.33; 2.10; 3.35; 3.55; 4.35; 5.0; 5.50
Leicestershire v. Essex
Commentary by Brian Johnston at Leicester
Kent v. Hampshire
Commentary by Neil Durden-Smith at Maidstone
Surrey v. Yorkshire
Commentary by John Arlott at The Oval
1.50 Lunchtime Scoreboard
Racing
1.40 Down the Card with Peter Bromley from Newbury
1.45 Down the Card with Julian Wilson from Ayr
2.55 The Morland Brewery Stakes
A handicap for three-year-olds only run over one mile. five furlongs, and 60 yards
Commentary by Peter Bromley with a summary by Roger Mortimer
From Newbury
3.10 The W.O. and H.O. Wills Silver Goblets
A handicap for three-year-olds and upwards, run over one mile
Commentary by Julian Wilson
From Ayr
3.25 The Donnington Castle Stakes
For two-year-olds only, run over seven furlongs
Commentary by Peter Bromley with a summary by Roger Mortimer
From Newbury
4.55 Racing Results
Golf
1.35; 3.45; 4.25; 5.35 Esso Professional Golf Tournament
Tom Scott reports on the final days play in this 'round-robin' match play event in which Dave Thomas is defending his title against formidable opposition from home and overseas players
From Moor Park Golf Club, Herts.
International Swimming: A British Olympic Squad v. The South Africans
1.55 Preview
2.40 News of the Men's and Women's Backstroke events
3.50 News of the Men's and Women's 110 yards Freestyle events
4.45 Round-up of all the events
Commentary by Alun Williams with comments and summaries by Pat Besford
From Coventry
Athletics
4.15; 5.40 The Europa Cup Men's Semi-Finals
Commentaries by Norman Cuddeford and reports by Harold Abrahams on the first day.
From the Stadion Tribune, Duisburg, West Germany
Broadcast by arrangement with the West German Broadcasting Service
+ THE LYDIAN ENSEMBLE
Noelle Barker (soprano)
Owen Wynne (counter-tenor) Alan cuckston (harpsichord) Pauline Dunn (cello)
A programme of excerpts from the South Bank Festival including readings of poems in their own languages by BELLA AKMADULINA
YFHUDA AMICHAI
INGEBORG BACHMANN
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER
ROBERT GRAVES
LAURIE LEE
PABLO NERUDA and many others
Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH
†Recorded in the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, London
or Marriage in a Monastery
Opera in four acts
Music by Prokofiev
Libretto by The Composer and Mira Mendelssohn after Sheridan
Sung in Russian
(gramophone records)
Cast in order of singing
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE STANISLAVSKY NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO THEATRE
Conducted by KEMAL ABDOULLAIEVÃ
The action takes place In Seville In the eighteenth century
Act 1
Piaza in front of Don Jerome's house
8.9* Act 2
Scene 1 Louisa's apartment in her father's house
Scene 2 The waterfront
Scene 3 A room In Don Jerome 's house
Donald C. Watt
Reader in International History at the University of London and editor of Survey of International Affairs broadcasts the second of his four commentaries in this fortnightly current affairs series
Next talk: August 5
Acr 3
Scene 1 Mendoza's lodging Scene 2 Don Jerome 's huuse
Scene 3 A Convent garden
10.5. ACT 4
Scene 1 The Monastery
Scene 2 The ballroom in Don Jerome 's house
by Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.S.
Sir Gavin has been looking afresh at the mystery of the vanished continent, and, particularly in the light of seismological researches carried out in Greece, offers a novel solution.
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